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Junon and Abel are the parents of three grown children: Elizabeth, a melancholic playwright with a mathematician husband and a tortured teenage son, Paul; Henri, the self-destructive black sheep, banished from family events by Elizabeth five years prior; youngest Ivan, the peacemaker, is married to the beautiful Sylvia and has two eccentric little boys; while a fourth--Joseph, the eldest--died from... See Full Description
| Genres: |
Art/Foreign, Drama, Kids/Family and Holiday |
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| Running Time: |
2 hrs. 32 min. |
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| Release Date: |
November 14th, 2008 (limited) |
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| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
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| Distributors: |
IFC Films
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| U.S. Box Office: |
$1,060,602 |
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| Critics Reviews |
Average Grade:
A-
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Boston Globe, Ty Burr
"...the director has fashioned a love-letter to French film and the entire history of cinema..." more...
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A |
Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert
"...a strangely encompassing collection of private moments among the members of a large family with a fraught history." more...
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A- |
Chicago Tribune, Matt Pais
"If only American holiday movies were this convincing, honest and unsentimental." more...
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B+ |
Entertainment Weekly, Lisa Schwarzbaum
"...enchanting." more...
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A |
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